Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 09:26:06 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: symlinking /tmp: was: size of root (was Re: Debugging Kernel....) Message-ID: <3911887E.C6D08C31@math.missouri.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005041603510.256-100000@dlanor.evertsen.nl>
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Ronald Klop wrote: > > As far as I know you can't change the size of filesystems in freebsd. (Of > course it's possible, but I don't know the tool to do it.) But you can > place /tmp on a different filesystem (mount it, not a symlink, because you > will not have a tmp when booting single user otherwise.) Because this is > the only directory in the root partition which is written on, it's the > only one which may give problems. > I have been symlinking /tmp to /usr/tmp for quite a while (I got the idea from the book "The Complete FreeBSD"). It has never caused me problems. But now I can see the potential for problems. What programs are there in /bin or /sbin that use /tmp that could cause problems in single user mode (if one chooses not to mount /usr)? -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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